Linebacker, Akron, 2012–⁠15

Jatavis Brown

Number
No. 1
Height
5′11″
Hometown
Belle Glade, FL
Born
Feb 18, 1994, in Belle Glade, Florida

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Jatavis Brown played linebacker at Akron (2012–⁠15). The San Diego Chargers took Brown in round 5, No. 175 overall in the 2016 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
2015
Mid-American Defensive Player of the Year
Drafted
No. 175
Round 5, 2016 NFL Draft (San Diego Chargers)

Honors

Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.

Defense

SeasonTeamInt
2015Akron1

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. * That team-season’s player lines are missing part of the team’s yards in our source, so these numbers may be short. Before 2016 our source records only interceptions for most defenders (no tackles, tackles for loss or sacks), so these lines count interceptions only. His tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from other sources are under “Defense before 2016” below.

Defense before 2016

SeasonGSoloAstTklTFLSacksPBUFF
201281310230.5001
2013N1257501076.5222
2014E8 of 12431962––––

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources, marked by season: unmarked, cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in); N, NCAA statistics, via octonion/football, the season’s official lines (G: games played); E, ESPN play-by-play participants, via SportsDataverse: tackles only, counted in the games whose play-by-play names tacklers (G: those games, of his team’s), so part of the season, not its total. A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

SeasonTeamNo.PosHt
2012Akron1LB
2013Akron1LB
2014Akron1LB
2015Akron1LB5′11″

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Game by game

2015 Akron 1 game with an interception on file, 1 INT
DateOpponentResultInt
Nov 14atMiami (OH)W 37–⁠281
2014 Akron 0 games with an interception on file, 3 catches, 34 yards
DateOpponentResultInt

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file. Before 2016 our source’s box scores record only interceptions for defenders (no tackles, tackles for loss or sacks), so only those games are listed. His tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from other sources are under “Defense before 2016” below.

Before the draft

DrillPro day 2016
Height5′10⅞″
Weight227 lb
Arm length31″
Hand size9″
40-yard dash4.44 s
10-yard split1.53 sW
Vertical jump35½″
Broad jump10′5″
Bench press33 reps
3-cone drill7.19 s
20-yard shuttle4.31 s

Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

4 seasons, 49 games with a stat; latest team: Los Angeles Chargers.

SeasonTeamGTklSacksInt
2016San Diego Chargers12693.50
2017Los Angeles Chargers146100
2018Los Angeles Chargers159310
2019Los Angeles Chargers8900
NFL career492324.50

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0), matched to him by his draft pick and college (Player ids: DynastyProcess (GPL-3.0)). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat.

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